Mark J. Seitz

Mark Joseph Seitz (10 January 1954-) was Bishop of El Paso from 6 May 2013, succeeding Armando Xavier Ochoa.

Biography
Mark Joseph Seitz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1954, and he graduated from seminary in Dallas, Texas in 1976 and became an ordained Catholic priest in 1980. He worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas from 1985 to 1994 and as pastor of St. Joseph Church in Waxahachie from 1993 to 2003. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas, and, in 2013, Pope Francis appointed Seitz Bishop of El Paso. On 5 August 2019, in an interview with the Catholic CNN journalist Chris Cuomo, Seitz called out racism and hate and told Catholic white supremacists to follow Jesus' teachings and love their enemies and not just their own kind.